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Comment on Police State by Juliet46 https://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/police-state/#comment-54435
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:01:46 +0000http://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/?p=25356#comment-54435But of course that is why the EU wants its own army, Clegg’s Invisibles.

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Comment on Police State by Dan Holdsworth https://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/police-state/#comment-54433
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:52:34 +0000http://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/?p=25356#comment-54433The basic problem in France is that the French government has for a very long time tried to be pretty much everything and control everything, and have steadfastly not responded to negotiation, requests or indeed anything save massed country-wide protest. As a result, France has slowly turned into a massively unionised power bloc with the people on one side and the faceless bureaucracy on the other.

Every time someone has a problem that requires the bureaucracy to change stance, they are forced to escalate and escalate until pretty much everyone in France comes out on strike for a petty matter that five minutes chat over coffee between a manager and a shop steward would resolve.

But they’ve done this over and over again, until now the pattern is established in everyone’s minds: nobody does anything unless the ENTIRE country rises up and asks. Teach people to engage in country-wide protest and eventually, when they’re pissed-off enough, you get country-wide near insurrection.

With a bit of luck France is an exceptional case. I would not like to see massed country-wide violence in Britain, and I rather suspect that we’re not going to see it, either. Britain doesn’t have Napoleonic inheritance laws, which in France divvy up a farm between all the children in a family. France never really had a series of Enclosures Acts like Britain did (look that up, biggest historical stitch-up of the People in recent history and helped kickstart the industrial revolution). France thus has a lot of very small-scale farmers, whereas these are extremely rare in Britain.

France simply has way more people living in the countryside than Britain does. A rally of every farmer in the country would barely fill Trafalgar Square. The Countryside Alliance marches were farmers, countrymen and all sorts turning up and barely managed 400,000 at the greatest extent (the anti-hunting laws have been mostly ignored ever since; even the strict badger protection laws are ignored if inconvenient).

Britain also isn’t heavily unionised, isn’t wedded to the idea of collective action by people against the State, and hasn’t yet been pushed that far.

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Comment on Police State by Stewart Cowan https://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/police-state/#comment-54430
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 04:43:16 +0000http://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/?p=25356#comment-54430I doubt if it matters any more if these people are elected or appointed. I mean, ‘we’ voted in May, Cameron, Blair and perhaps most insanely of all: Clegg.

People voted for Neil Kinnock for years – and his wife. Now his son is an MP. Some people just don’t learn (other than the Kinnocks, who learned how to make millions being professional socialists).

I’ve spoken to quite a few politicians in my time and I can assure you that they are quite barmy. Sometimes they are more open in private than they are in public, which occasionally reveals a healthy scepticism for the general madness of their parties (not that they are ever likely to rock the boat publicly), but at other times they espouse even more lunatic ideas privately than they do in public.

I can only surmise that the reason so many politicians are bonkers is because they are essentially psychopaths and they know how to turn on the charm – and they can be bullies as well – I’ve been seriously verbally abused by at least one. I could have reported him for religiously-aggravated hate crime, but I believe that even total jerks should have the right to free speech. Mind you, he was supposed to represent me, so that’s why it doesn’t matter if these clowns are elected or not, because they don’t represent us anyway.

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Comment on Police State by Carol42 https://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/police-state/#comment-54429
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 02:47:07 +0000http://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/?p=25356#comment-54429Reminds me of my time in Iran during the revolution. For months the protests were being controlled by the police and military, then it seemed quite suddenly, the soldiers refused to fire on their own people and it was all over. Of course the end result, Khomeni and the ensuing theocracy was a disaster for the people but if the forces of control refuse to act no government can survive but how it ends is unpredictable.

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Comment on ‘Alt-right’? by roobeedoo2 https://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/alt-right/#comment-54427
Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:26:28 +0000http://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/?p=25353#comment-54427Personally, I think children are infinitely safer around second-hand smoke than being around second-hand virtue.

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Comment on ‘Alt-right’? by legiron https://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/alt-right/#comment-54426
Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:07:26 +0000http://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/?p=25353#comment-54426The most immediate future problem I see there is that one day, one of the boys will get a serious kidney infection. He’ll pee blood and think nothing of it. ‘It’s just a period’. He’ll be dead within hours and he won’t have thought to call a doctor.

Girls who act like boys used to be called ‘tomboys’. It never required any special treatment and certainly not medical intervention.

This ridiculous virtue signalling is going to ruin a lot of lives, and prematurely end a few.